Recommended by Concerto, Klassik Heute, Musicora and Oberösterreichische Nachrichten.
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Complete Violin Concertos Vol. 2
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin & direction
Concertos for Violin, Strings and B.c.
TWV 51:C3 (= Overture from ‘Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon’, Hamburg 1724), g1, h2*, G7*, a2*, B1 (‘Pisendel Concerto’), A4
* first recordings
(cpo 2007)
Elizabeth Wallfisch and the L’Orfeo Barockorchester commit themselves to Telemann with devotion and verve. This CD, in fact the entire project of recording Telemann’s complete violin concerto’s, can warmly be recommended to all fans of Baroque music.
Klassik Heute 01/2007This should be a paradox: on the one hand we have highest technical precision and clarity and on the other hand gentle sonority, deep emotions and a dancelike buoyancy.
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 04/2007[Elizabeth Wallfisch] fills Telemann’s music with life and breath, supported by the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra with brilliance and temperament. Michi Gaigg has yet again taken up the position of concert master, having left the direction to Wallfisch Together with her musicians she sweeps through the fast movements like a storm and performs the slow movements with incomparable expression, now and again in deep contemplation with Wallfisch’s violin a breath soaring high.
Concerto – Das Magazin für Alte Musik, August/September 2007
